Plants are more courageous than almost all human beings: an orange tree would rather die than produce lemons, whereas instead of dying the average person would rather be someone they are not.

A social critic is someone whose work revolves around where and how our successes are failing us.

You can only manage to convince a person to admit to being wrong, not ignorant, arrogant, or stupid.

Not every person that speaks less than you do is more ignorant than you are.

Using money in one’s attempt to put an end to poverty is like using a border in one’s attempt to put an end to xenophobia.

Rich people read their bills. Poor people dread theirs.

Muscles aching to work, minds aching to create - this is man.

It's almost as if each instant is our last and first. We are always dying, and always reborn. And that is living.

Sometimes life is like living in a chamber of Liquid Oxygen. Liquid don't allow you to live and Oxygen don't let you die.

You may know me... But you have no idea who I am...

Mothers care in volumes of tears and earnestness of prayers and a depth of emotion others cannot fathom.

A man has only so much life, and must diversify his efforts according to his values.

In Will's experience, when someone who ought to be afraid wasn't, the reason was rarely bravery. Usually it meant that they knew something you didn't.

I see the old even as I am looking at the new--the storefronts now occupied by up-to-date boutiques and trendy retail shops. It's almost like being in two places at the same time.

When people look at my pictures I want them to feel the way they do when they want to read a line of a poem twice.

The drama's laws the drama's patrons give. For we that live to please must please to live.